The city of
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
is administratively divided into fifteen ''comunas'', unlike the
Province of Buenos Aires, which is subdivided into ''
partidos'', or the rest of Argentina, in which the second-order administrative division is ''
departamentos''. Each ''comuna'' encompasses one or more neighbourhoods (''barrios''), which are represented in the respective community centres for administrative purposes.
The division by ''comunas'' was instituted by the 1996 Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires, and modified in 2005 by Law #1777. The law was again modified in 2008, 2011, and 2013.
List of ''comunas''
The ''comunas'' are serially numbered. They are listed below in numerical order together with their constituent neighbourhoods.
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Comuna 1:
Puerto Madero
Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a Barrios and Communes of Buenos Aires, ''barrio'' of Buenos Aires in the Buenos Aires Central Business District, Central Business District. Occup ...
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San Nicolás,
Retiro,
Monserrat,
San Telmo and
Constitución
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Comuna 2:
Recoleta
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Comuna 3:
Balvanera and
San Cristóbal
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Comuna 4:
La Boca,
Barracas,
Parque Patricios and
Nueva Pompeya
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Comuna 5:
Almagro and
Boedo
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Comuna 6:
Caballito
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Comuna 7:
Flores and
Parque Chacabuco
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Comuna 8:
Villa Soldati,
Villa Lugano and
Villa Riachuelo
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Comuna 9:
Parque Avellaneda,
Mataderos and
Liniers
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Comuna 10:
Villa Luro,
Vélez Sársfield,
Floresta,
Monte Castro,
Villa Real and
Versalles
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Comuna 11:
Villa Devoto,
Villa del Parque,
Villa Santa Rita and
Villa General Mitre
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Comuna 12:
Villa Pueyrredón,
Villa Urquiza,
Coghlan and
Saavedra
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Comuna 13:
Núñez,
Belgrano and
Colegiales
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Comuna 14:
Palermo
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Comuna 15:
Villa Ortúzar,
Chacarita,
Villa Crespo,
La Paternal,
Agronomía and
Parque Chas
See also
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Departments of Argentina – second-level administrative divisions in other parts of Argentina.
References
External links
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{{Articles on second-level administrative divisions of South American countries